Just This Episode 2: City Hall vs. San Antonio Firefighters Union

This week in our Just This podcast, Rivard Report Editor-in-Chief Beth Frerking and former San Antonio news columnist Rick Casey discuss the latest skirmish in an ongoing war between City Hall and the San Antonio Professional Firefighters Association.

This round, the union is working to place propositions on the ballot that would give voters the right to consider capping the city manager’s tenure and salary; negotiate contracts through binding arbitration (if other avenues fail); and to make it easier to have citizen-led referendums that could impact City finances. City officials, including Mayor Ron Nirenberg, have drawn hard lines against the effort led by firefighters’ union chief Chris Steele.

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Rick Casey's career spans four decades of award-winning reporting on San Antonio. He previously worked as a metro columnist for the former San Antonio Light and, later, the San Antonio Express-News. More recently, he hosted Texas Week With Rick Casey from 2011-2017 on KLRN-TV.